I Need Some Help With Cutting In My Stories...

So cutting is obviously a very serious thing, but nowadays it seems to be taken very lightly, when it shouldn't be. Usually, I like to avoid the topic all together, but for this one particular story, it seems to me that it is going to be a very important element. I want to do it right, so it doesn't sound like my character is "Oh so emo" and "a wrist slitter" and all those other horrible names they give people who partake in self-mutilation.

A lot of people tend to roll their eyes when someone mentions cutting, just because it's the "hip emo" thing to do, but I still think it's very serious. if you were to read a story with cutting in it, would you roll your eyes and immediately click away from it? I assure you that the character that is cutting, would not be doing for pop culture reasons, but purely because she is immensely insecure and slightly chemically imbalanced. I would try to make it as realistic and non-cliche as possible. Do you think you could help me out with this?
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:06pm